[bigfootbob]

I don’t think that is quite right. Out here behind the curtain in the Soviet of Washington, we have Public Utility Districts (PUD), that provide electricity, sewers and water. They are smaller concerns that are established and run by elected citizens residing in the district where the service is provided. They are not a form of government. They actually work better than the larger quasi government providers.

[MonicaG]

This is true, good points.

[palmer]

It's the opposite here. In my county we have a lean and mean electric coop except for the town where they have town-run electricity. Their electricity costs more and their service is worse. Nobody in the county has well water worse than the river water in town and nobody pays more for water than the people in town.

Electricity is relatively simple but still complicated enough for government (or quasi-government) to screw up. Running social media sites is much more complicated than that. The government will force big tech to allow "conservative" ideas which big tech will then shadow ban in a million different ways.